Archaeology

New and Key Titles 2013

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Welcome to the 2013 Archaeology Catalogue.

This year sees the publication of some great new textbooks, research, and reference works which we have collected together for you to view here.

Elsewhere in the catalogue you will find our new and key titles are arranged by series and theme, and these can be accessed using the links on the left hand side.

From introductory guides to textbooks, and reference handbooks to monographs, we are confident you that you will find the right book to suit your needs.

Remember, many of our titles:

• Are available as complimentary exam copies for instructors
• Can be recommended to your university librarians
• Feature our view inside function, where you can view sample pages
• Are accompanied with companion websites that contain extra content and resources

We hope you enjoy using this catalogue and if you have any queries or comments please get in touch. Contact details can be found below the contents list on the left.

Best wishes,
Routledge Archaeology

  1. Archaeology in the Making

    Conversations through a Discipline

    Edited by William L Rathje, Michael Shanks, Christopher Witmore

    Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come...

    Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Reclaiming Archaeology

    Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

    Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal

    Series: Archaeological Orientations

    Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with...

    To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Ruin Memories

    Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

    Edited by Bjørnar Olsen, Þóra Péturdóttir

    Series: Archaeological Orientations

    Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Ancient Central Andes

    By Jeffrey Quilter

    Series: Routledge World Archaeology

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Relational Archaeologies

    Humans, Animals, Things

    Edited by Christopher Watts

    Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as...

    To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Sumerian World

    Edited by Harriet Crawford

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Bodies in Conflict

    Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation

    Edited by Nicholas J Saunders, Paul Cornish

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory

    Investigating the Missing Majority

    By Linda Hurcombe

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

  9. The Vikings

    By Neil Price

    Series: Peoples of the Ancient World

    The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years from the late eighth to the late eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark left their homelands in...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Miletos

    Archaeology and History, 2nd Edition

    By Alan M. Greaves

    Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important Greek cities – a key economic power as well as a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in over a century of excavations not published in English, studying the...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge